Im setting up my Naomi Universal cab which has a VGA only monitor. Im running win 7 x64 so I cant use the custom ati driver for my HD4670. What settings should I set in the mame.ini? I'm running the newest groovymame x64 143u8 and some games look and play great while others are not working correctly.

I have been just running every game at 640x480 with the mainline mame but I hate the screen tearing and if i use the triplebuffer I get the sound hiccups. I have no problem switching resolutions but want to keep from having to adjust the monitor controls between games. Here are logs from two games.

Ms Pacman: looks great but it is running at %300 until i hit f10. The game doesnt adjust automatically.

Mushi Futari: plays in a small window with black boarders on all sides. Looks like it is the correct aspect ratio though.

Those are just two quick examples. I play a lot of vert shmups on the hori monitor.

Use the video interface that works best for you, when scaling is involved d3d is usually faster:

video d3d

That should allow you to run all games at your default desktop resolution and refresh.

If you want to play a little more you can install Powerstrip and once it's activated use this option:

powerstrip 1

That should allow an aditional tweak of your desktop resolution to approximate the game's native refresh keeping within the ranges specified by the monitor_specs line (*that's when the values at the beginning of the line are actually used so I chose some logical ones for a VGA monitor).

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At some point, consider using WinXP 64 instead of Win 7, it will make your CRT's life easier.